Re: Stop false review statements
Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Sun, 17 May 2026 12:42:12 -0700
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=EF=BB=BF > On May 17, 2026, at 11:57=E2=80=AFAM, Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote: > =EF=BB=BFOn Sun, May 17, 2026 at 11:17:06AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote: >>=20 >> I actually tried to run it with ollama on my >> personal framework 13. Adding nominal support is trivial, but the >> whole thing is not really useful: I can get maybe few hundreds >> tokens per second using a quantified model with reduced quality; an >> average sashiko review is consuming 3.5 millions tokens (with Gemini >> 3.1 pro, it=E2=80=99s also model-dependent). >=20 > I'm curious. What hardware and LLM model were you using? A few > hundred tokens per second seems surprising high. My initial > research[1] showes that an M5 Max Macbook Pro costing 5 or 6 kilobucks > can do 31.6 tokens/second on a 27B 4-bit Quanitized model (Qwen 3.5). I=E2=80=99ve framework 13 with amd 7840u. I=E2=80=99ve tried several models b= oth on cpu and gpu.=20 Sorry, it was a couple of months ago and I don=E2=80=99t remember all the de= tails, so I won=E2=80=99t=20 claim any specific numbers, but as I remember the best numbers were around=20= a hundred tokens per second. In any case it=E2=80=99s few orders of magnitud= e slower than what is realistically required. If someone has a powerful hardware and is willing to benchmark sashiko with o= pen-source models, I=E2=80=99m very interested in results. > [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rzkw4x/m5_max_128g_perfo= rmance_tests_i_just_got_my_new/ >=20 > The model matters of course. With Gemma 3 27B and a 6-bit > quantization, it's 21 tokens/s, and with Deepseek R1 8B Q6_K, it's > 72.8 tokens/second. But unless you're using a really low-end model, > or a really expensive, splufty hardware platform, I haven't seen > reports of hundreds of tokens per second on hardware costing a > reasonable amount of memory. (I'll set aside the question of whether > spending $6k for a fully spec'ed out M5 Max Macbook Pro, or $15k for a > fully spec'ed out M3 Ultra Mac Studio is "reasonable".) >=20 > As a result I'm not entirely sure how realistic it is to do reviews > using "free" (you still have to pay $$$ for the hardware) local, > open-weight LLM's if an average review requires around 3.5 million > tokens. Fully agree. But it might change in few years, things are moving quickly.=